(FL) Charters get $55 million for upkeep, other schools get zero

[Roland99]

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-charter-school-construction-dollar20110724,0,7507766.story

Traditional public schools in Florida will get no money from the state this year for additions or needed repairs to thousands of aging buildings, but charter schools will score big.

All of the state cash budgeted for school construction and maintenance is going to the independent, tax-financed charters favored by the Republican-dominated Legislature and Gov. Rick Scott.

The charter school operated for children of employees of The Villages, the Republican stronghold in north Lake County frequented by Scott and former President George W. Bush, is expected to receive about $1 million.

School district officials across Florida are bemoaning the Legislature's decision to cut traditional public schools out of PECO — the Public Education Capital Outlay program. The state's 350 charter schools will share $55 million, while the approximately 3,000 traditional schools will go without.

Gov. pRick Scott. What a "job creator"

[phantom power]

1. more drowing in the bathtub

:(

[HowHasItComeToThis]

2. THE REPUB ARE SICK PUPPIES

THANK GOD I LEFT FLORIDORA 40 YEARS AGO

[immoderate]

3. Scary how important destruction of education is to the right wing agenda.

Stop or I shoot the black guy!


--imm

[Karmadillo]

4. Great opportunity for the Democratic Party to organize parents & friends of public education and

march on Tallahassee and local government outposts. Shutting the capital down for a couple of days might convince corporate puppets to rethink budget priorities.

[Roland99]

5. Doubt the corporate whores in Tallahassee would even blink